an open data story
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An Open Data Story
1st Seminar The Programmable City Project
Open data & evidence informed decision making
Dr Tracey P. LauriaultProgrammable City Project
NIRSA, NUIM
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Discovering the power of data Access to Data (Canada) Open Data (+/-Canada) Data and The Programmable City
Project Open data in Ireland...
Discovering the Power of Data
University Setting
Image source: http://www.geomatikk.ntnu.no/english/
University Geomatics MADGIC
Federal Government Setting
Provincial and Territorial Geomatics Accord (2001)
Civil Society Setting
Geographic and Numeric Information Systems
Social Planning Network of Ontario
Research Setting
R
Research Data Consultations
Access to Data in Canada
Canada’s Access Story
Universities / Research libraries, data & GIS librarians
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Granting Councils – SSHRC/NSERC/CIHR Scientists – natural & social Geomatics NGOs & Civil Society (social, environmental) Governments, Federal, Provinces, Territories
& Cities
Data Cyber/infrastructures
Institutional Framework•administration•policy• law•skills
Technical Standards•data integration• Interoperability•Preservation• transfer
Framework Data•geodetic
•base maps
Access Network•catalogs•metadata•web services•atlas
Geospatial Data
Infrastructure (GDI)
Open Data (Canada)
In the background...
Platforms: GoogleMaps - mashups Flickr – geotagging MyDelicious – Folksonomies Blogging & Vlogging YouTube Facebook Twitter
Open Access SPARC CIHR
Data Management International Polar Year
Open Source Un-conferences Bar camps GOSLING gaggles
Community WiFi Law
Lawrence Lessig Future of Ideas Code is Law
Creative Commons Canadian Internet Public
Policy Interest Clinic Michael Geist Teresa Scassa David Fewer
Access to Public Data
UK Guardian Free Our Data Campaign
US Data.gov
Open Data Definitions (sample)
1992 - UNCED – Agenda 21 Chapter 40, Information for Decision Making
2005 - Open Knowledge Foundation (OKNF) - 11 Principles (Licence specific)
2007 - US Open Government Working Group - 8 principles of Open Government Data
GEOSS - Data Sharing Principles for the Global Earth Observing System of Systems
Science Commons Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data
Panton Principles for Open Data in Science
Open Economics Principles Ontario Information Privacy
Commissioner - 7 Principles Sunlight Foundation - 10 Principles for
Opening Up Government Information
US Association of Computing Machinery (USACM) – Recommendations on Open Government
American Library Association (ALA) – Access to Government Information Principles
Open Congress - Open Data and Open Database Creation Principles
W3C - Publishing Open Government Data
Tim Berners-Lee 5 Star of Open Data OECD, Recommendations on Public
Sector Information OECD, Principles and Guidelines for
Access to Research Data from Public Funding
Most Popular Open Data Defs.
1. Access2. Redistribution3. Reuse4. Absence of Technological
Restriction5. Attribution6. Integrity7. No Discrimination Against Persons
or Groups8. No Discrimination Against Fields of
Endeavor9. Distribution of License10. License Must Not Be Specific to a
Package11. License Must Not Restrict the
Distribution of Other Works
★ make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open license
★★ make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table)
★★★ use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel)
★★★★ use URIs to denote things, so that people can point at your stuff
★★★★★ link your data to other data to provide contextTim Berners-Lee, 5 star deployment
scheme for Open Data
Cities take the lead in Canada
G4 + 1
Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver + Montreal
Open Data Cities
1. Banff Open Data Portal, (AB) Pilot2. City of Brandon (MB)3. City of Burlington (ON), Pilot4. City of Calgary (AB)5. City of Edmonton (AB)6. City of Fredericton (NB)7. Portail dedonnées ouvertes de la ville de
Gatineau, Gatineau Ouverte – Citizen Led8. County of Grande Prairie (AB)9. Halifax Regional Municipality (NS)10. City of Hamilton Open and Accessible Data
(ON), City of Hamilton (Transit Feed) (ON), Open Data Hamilton – Citizen Led ***NEW
11. OpenHalton (ON) – Citizen Led12. City of Kelowna Open Data Catalog (BC)
***NEW13. City of London (ON), OpenData London –
Citizen Led14. Township of Langley (BC)15. Open Data Medicine Hat (AB)16. City of Mississauga – Mississauga Data (ON)17. Ville de Montréal Portails données ouvertes
(QC), Montréal Ouvert – Citizen Led18. City of Nanaimo (BC)
19. City of Niagara Falls (ON)20. Region of Niagara (ON)21. Regional District of North Okanagan (BC)22. District of North Vancouver (BC) GeoWeb23. City of Ottawa (ON), Citizens’ APP Group –
OpenData Ottawa; Apps24. Region of Peel (ON)25. City of Prince George (BC)26. Ville de Québec Catalogue de données,
Capitale Ouverte (QC)- Citizen Led in Ville de Québec
27. City of Red Deer, Alberta28. City of Regina (SK) Open Gov & Open Data
site29. Open Data Saskatoon, interim portal30. City of Surrey (BC) GIS Catalog31. City of Toronto (ON); DataTO – Citizen Group32. City of Vancouver (BC); Open Data Wiki33. City of Victoria (BC)34. Open Data (city) Waterloo (ON).35. Region of Waterloo (ON), Region of Waterloo
– Citizen Led,36. City of Windsor (ON) Open Data Catalog
Open Data Provinces
1. Data BC2. Alberta Open Data government portal3. Open Data Saskatchewan, Citizen Led4. Ontario Open Data5. Données ouvertes Portail du Gouvernement du
Québec, Québec Ouvert – Citizen Led
Federal Open Data
Geogratis & Geobase & Discovery Portal & Atlas of Canada Office of the Information Commissioners Open Government
Resolutions OpenData.gc.ca Research Data Canada Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Open Data
Citizen Engagement
http://opennorth.ca/ Budget Plateauhttp://budgetplateau.com/
Citizen Recreation
http://patinermontreal.ca/rinks/74-saint-simon-apotrehttp://montrealouvert.net/a-propos/
Accountability
http://mamairie.ca/
http://represent.opennorth.ca/
Public Health
http://resto-net.ca/en
Chief Medical Officer of Health
http://emis.santemontreal.qc.ca/
Transparency Les appels d’offres et certain
contrats octroyés de la Ville de Montréal et la province du Québec (version détaillée ici)
Le registre des entreprises du Canada
Les dons au partis politiques du Canada
Les dons aux partis politiques du Québec
Le registre des lobbyistes du gouvernment fédéral(aussi registre et journal)
Licenses restreintes dans l'industrie de la construction
Les contrats octroyés par la Ville de Laval depuis 2007
Les contrats octroyés par la Ville de Montréal depuis 2006
Hackathons
http://www.rhok.org/
http://montrealouvert.net/2011/11/23/compte-rendu-du-3e-hackathon-montreal-
ouvert/?lang=en
http://www.livinglabmontreal.org/
TranspoCampMTL
Entrepreneurs
All 10,000 public and private foundations.
Exhaustive list of federal and provincial funding programs specifically for non-profits (over 700).
Corporate funders (500 and growing).
Transportation Planning
Au niveau municipal, les données sont accessibles indirectement sur le site de la ville de Montréal. En d'autres termes, ces données n'ont pas été prévues pour être utilisées de manière directe mais sont affichées sur une carte dans la section Info-Travaux.
Au niveau provinciale, les données viennent du Ministère des transports du Québec et de son service Québec 511. Là aussi le MTQ se démarque de ses homologues canadiens en étant a priori le premier à proposer des données GPS pour la localisation des chantiers.
Advocacy
http://www.opendatabc.ca/index.html
http://opennorth.ca/
Data Negotiation
http://cdc-dcc.info/mandate.php
Citizen Science
http://waterenvironmentalhub.ca/
Environment
http://www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/
http://www.ecojustice.ca/media-centre/press-releases/court-victory-
forces-canada-to-report-pollution-data-for-mines
Funding
http://www.ipy-api.gc.ca/pg_IPYAPI_052-fra.html
Open by Design
http://www.oic-ci.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr-ori-ari_2010_1.aspx
Programmable City
Analytical FrameworkTranslation: City into code Transduction: Code reshapes city
Understanding the city(Knowledge)
P 1: How are digital data generated and processed about cities and their citizens?
P 5: How does software drive public policy development and implementation?
Managing the city(Governance)
P 2: How are discourses and practices of city governance translated into code?
P 6: How is software used to regulate and govern city life?
Working in the city(Production)
P 3: How is the geography and political economy of software production organised?
P 7: How does software alter the forma and nature of work?
Living in the city(Social Politics)
P 4: How is software discursively produced and legitimated by vested interests?
P 8: How does software transform the spatiality and spatial behaviour of individuals?
Analytical framework of the SOFTCITY project Source: NIRSA Programmable City Project Post Doctoral Application Document
Kitchin’s Assemblages
• Systems of thought• Governmentalities• Political economy• Forms of knowledge• Practices• Subjectivities• Materialities/Infrastructures• Organisations and institutions• Places• Marketplaces
Information Requirements
Instantiations – smartcities (IBM), sustainable connected cities (INTEL), government, community based, data analytics, big data, open data
Infrastructures – portals, metadata catalogs, standards, formats, requirements, architecture, APIS, data (materialities)
Policies/Laws – licenses, regulation, guidelines, agreements, contracts, privacy, access, IPR (political economy)
People – hactivists / public servants /researchers / company employeers / communities / data users / data producers / data brokers / app developers / entrepreneurs / curators /consultants / politician / coder, prosumer, citizen scientists (subjectivities)
Activities – hackathons, conferences, g 2 b, data users, sales, apps development, evidence informed decision making, planning, advocacy, collective data gathering/OSM, sensing, surveillance (Practices)
Places – organization (ngos, gov. Office, etc.), public space (cafe), hubs (t-cube), storage, lists, blogs, websites, groups, virtual - hangouts/skype, bulletin boards/software/calendars
Incentive structures – profit, democratic deliberation, MIS, notoriety-market, citizen science/VGI/crowd, data analytics, social need/desire/affect, obligation, creativity, propaganda, amusement, team, social expectations? (Subjectivities / marketplace)
Data – types, forms, controls, use, access, communities, users, classifications, standards, institutions, preservation/lifecycle, quality, medium
Open Data in Ireland